by mega raptor » Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:49 pm
Alright, I think 4/5 (6/5 if you count CS's triple posts) is enough to say B is the answer.
You decide that the watchtower is the best option. You run quickly for the nearest watchtower, and quickly climb the steps. As you look down on the compound below you, you can see more of the base-there's a lake, not far from here, with an airstrip used for some unknown function. There are several bunkers scattered around, as well as warehouses, helipads and vehicle garages-all under siege by various alien monsters-the cockroach-like things you saw earlier underground, the centipede-like sentients, strange, beetle-like creatures the size of rhinos, and even flying, pterodactylesque creatures attacking helicopters and helipads.
You reach the top of the watchtower, and search through the scope for the observors. You find them easily-though they're far above the compound on a high cliff, their cameras glint slightly in the bright sun. There are five of them, and you check the magazine-eight rounds. If you're fast, you should be able to kill them all. You take one deep breath, and expel second thoughts from your mind. You take careful aim, but your shot only hits the observor in the leg and knocks him down-you underestimated how much the bullet would drop off. The others are not so lucky. You report this to Ozymandius, who replies, "Don't worry, I'll send someone else out to take care of him." You want to ask why he didn't bother doing this in the first place, but the tower beneath you begins to shake.
Looking down, you see one of the large, beetle-like creatures attempting to knock down the watchtower. Maybe it's obscuring its vision, maybe it knows you're up there, maybe it just instinctively attacks things-who knows? You need to stop it. Several options come to mind:
A) Use your grenade to distract it.
B) Go down the tower and make a run for it.
C) Attack it with your abilities.
It's you and me against the world. We attack at dawn.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper. - T.S. Eliot